This was from an interview with Ray the end of January, 2006... it might've
been posted, but just in case anyone is contemplating the end of Fates as
musical entity, read this:

Rock Is Life: Is the band thinking about another studio album?
Ray Alder: "Actually, yes. Jim and I were talking about it today. He's working
on the new OSI right now. He's really involved with it right now. They don't
know what they're going to do about another drummer, they may have a guest
drummer come in and do a few tracks. Jim says that he has so much music,
that once he's done with the OSI thing, I think were just going to go in and do
our twentieth record. It's up in the air. I think we didn't know what we wanted
to
do after this. We talked about it when we were in Europe. We didn't know if we
were going to continue FATES WARNING. There no reason for us not to do it
if we have music and if a label is interested. We're not bored with the band,
and were still pretty good at what we do, so why not share it with everybody
else? To answer your question, we are going to do another record."

So we have OSI in the wings, Redemption sometime this summer or fall,
perhaps, and then Fates maybe in 2007. Things is lookin' up!

Scott | http://www.theambientmind.com